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Mark, how you make sure, then, that Linux gets a boot partition under the 1024 track mark?


It generally doesn't need one -- the bootloaders got updated to deal with that (was it really 1024.. my memory is fuzzy) ages ago.

But it probably still needs something within the first 137G (128GB), so your suggestions (including partitioning) are all very good on that front.

Cheers